"But you see what I'm saying - I'm not the lead in any of those films, but it's very, very interesting. I'm about to do a sort of thriller with Ben Kingsley, and then I'm going to do a picture with Al Pacino where he plays an aging rock star who wants a last tour, and then I'm going to be a professor in Christopher Nolan's new film Interstellar. It was fascinating - it still is fascinating for me. "I won an Academy Award for The Cider House Rules, playing an American. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? For me, the performance was always playing different people. One week I'd be the lord, the next week I'd be the butler. I think where that comes from is my background of repertory, where I did a play a week. On whether he's considered turning down smaller parts and supporting roles And as he went by I said to him, 'Are you the English professor?' And he said, 'Yes.' And I said, I thought, by god, I've got it right." And we were just doing the first shot in the grounds of the university and I saw a man coming along with a potbelly and a beard, and he was carrying a case of wine. I played an alcoholic professor of English - and I grew a beard and put on a fat stomach. And I was a big success - it started me on the road to stardom." "I assure you, even if I said I could have done the accent, no British director would have cast me as an upper-crust officer. And he said to me, 'Can you do any other accent except the one you've got?' And I said, 'I can do any accent you like.' And he cast me as a very upper-crust toffee-nosed English officer. But it had been cast by the time I got to the audition. "And a symbol of the class system in the '60s was, for me, my first big role in a movie which got me recognition was in a movie called Zulu, right? The director of the movie was an American, and I was up for the part of the Cockney corporal. An amateur magician at a charity performance mysteriously disappears right before the police can arrest him for the theft of over 20 million in securities. Main Guest Cast Guest Crew Cast Appearances Crew Appearances Gallery « Previous Ep. But I am what's called a Cockney, which is very, very working-class London. Now You See Me, Now You Dont Now You See Me, Now You Dont. "No, but I was in repertory, which meant that I would do like 40 plays a year, one a week, so I was playing all different sorts of people. On whether, as an actor, he was ever pressured to lose his accent If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to." "If someone is very upper-class you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. On the advantage of having a "working-class" accent I mean, there are still people who talk like that, but no one listens." It's a completely different, whole different country and way of life now. "The BBC was so posh, on the radio they used to read the news in an evening suit. On how accents like his used to never be heard on BBC
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